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The LISLE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,724 15570 0.001 6
United States (1880 census) 770 6786 0.002 15
Change since 1880 +954 -8784 -0.001 -9
Other Countries
Australia 364 4357 0.002 22
United Kingdom 1,165 4651 0.003 25
Top States for LISLE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 171 10156 0.001 8
California 148 16229 0.000 4
Florida 143 12452 0.001 9
Ohio 109 11871 0.001 10
Oklahoma 61 6675 0.002 18
Top States for LISLE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Idaho 31 5921 0.002 24
Vermont 12 7327 0.002 20
Montana 17 8424 0.002 19
Oklahoma 61 6675 0.002 18
Arkansas 45 6152 0.002 17

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LISLE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LISLE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LISLE in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LISLE by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LISLE

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LISLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the LISLE surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LISLE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 67 3.89
White (Hispanic) 34 1.97
Mixed Race 30 1.74
Native American/Alaskan 25 1.45
Asian/Pacific 7 0.41
White (Caucasian) 1,561 90.55

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LISLE surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LISLE in historical publications

LISLE. " Of this surname were several families, springing originally fi-om two, which had derived the designation, one from the Isle of Ely, the other from the Isle of Wight." Eurke's Ext. Peerage. Eighteen dilTerent coats of arms are ascribed to this name by Berry. The principal forms of it are Lisle, L'Isle, Lyle, Lylle, Lyell. In charters it was latinized De Insula.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to LISLE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LISLE.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LISLE

The following words are slight variants of LISLE that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.